Royal Mail Rubber Band
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Royal Mail Rubber Band
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#2I remember collecting rubber bands from the postie as a child to make a rubber band ball. I remember most of them being brown. Sometimes our post comes bundled with a rubber band now. I don't think I've ever seen a red one.
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#3It seems they no longer use them. I remember having to pick them up quite regularly so it’s no wonder they consumed so many.
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#4Our post is still delivered in rubber bands, but they're no longer red.
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#5The volume of rubber bands used is equivalent to 1500 Escobars, another prolific rubber band user. Strangely Pablo did not get as much criticism and complaints about his excessive usage.
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#6Our post is still delivered in rubber bands, but they're no longer red.
If you happen to have a relevant source for this information the Wikipedia entry could use a citation for that statement in the introductory paragraph. Unfortunately personal experience and observation is not sufficient.
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#7> that contemporary red rubber bands are designed to be more biodegradable than previously used brown bands, so as to lessen the environmental impact
Doesn't this mean less reusable?
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#8At my first tech job there was a guy who had a ball made from the rubber bans the postie would leave every day. He had been doing it for 2-3 years before I joined. It was twice the size of a baseball.
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#9> that contemporary red rubber bands are designed to be more biodegradable than previously used brown bands, so as to lessen the environmental impact Doesn't this mean less reusable?
Not necessarily -- at least, not unless you count people reusing discarded rubber bands. Typically the strategy used in cases like this is to make the material break down faster in the presence of water; assuming postal workers aren't trying to get the mail wet, the rubber bands should also stay dry enough to be reusable.
I have plastic compost bags which stay intact for months in the cupboard but fall apart in 2 days when filled with wet food waste.
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#10Our post is still delivered in rubber bands, but they're no longer red.
If you happen to have a relevant source for this information the Wikipedia entry could use a citation for that statement in the introductory paragraph. Unfortunately personal experience and observation is not sufficient.
Never change, HN.